Your New Year’s Resolution: Shepherd your student newspaper into the wonderful world of Web 2.0 with a site that screams innovation, newsiness, and new new new new journalism. ————— Who can help: The uber-tech-savvy team behind the revolutionary CoPress collaborative. As announced today on its Web site, CoPress is ready to host your student newspaper [...]
Archive for December, 2008
CoPress Launches Hosting Service for Student Press Outlets
Posted in Uncategorized on December 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Judgment in St. Louis U. Lawsuit Against Student Paper Adviser
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Avis Meyer, College Journalism, College Media, Free Press, Journalism, Lawsuit, Media, St. Louis University, Student Newspaper, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The University News on December 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A judge has scored round two of the slugfest between St. Louis University and SLU communications professor and student newspaper adviser Avis Meyer squarely for Meyer, according to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ———– The fight started with an administrative decision last spring to rewrite the charter of The University News student newspaper. The administrators said [...]
College Media Story Ideas: Branding and College Watergates
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, tagged Branding, College Journalism, College Media, College Sports, Deep Throat, Homeland Security, Journalism, Last Lecture, New Media, Randy Pausch, Salt Lake Tribune, Story Ideas, Student Journalism, Washington Post on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Forget Soundsliding, podcasting, vlogging, geotagging, and a-Twitterin’. New media tools are important, but without kick-ass content Journalism 2.0 is still deader than Cuba Gooding Jr.’s acting career (seriously, what happened to him?). Everything journalism was, is and will be rests on our ability to tell a story. And every story starts with idea. ————- Below [...]
“Journalism Schools Alter Curriculum After Anderson Cooper Takes Off Shirt”
Posted in Future of Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Education, tagged 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper, College Journalism, Dateline Hollywood, Journalism, Journalism Education, Michael Phelps, Newspaper Death Watch, Olympics, Swimming on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Newspaper Death Watch got you down? Let’s lighten things up. A colleague with a sense of humor sent me this link to a *satirical* Dateline Hollywood story about the future of journalism education in this country. ————- Apparently, Anderson Cooper’s recent “60 Minutes” report on Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps has impacted the journalism community less [...]
links for 2008-12-25
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Education, Journalism Ethics, New Media, tagged College Journalism, Free Press, Free Speech, Journalism Education, Journalism Program, Journalism School, Juicy Campus, Miami Herald, Poughkeepsie Journal, Public Records, River Falls Journal, Student Journalism on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Campus gossip Web site tests freedom of speech”: One student’s take on the continuing Juicy Campus saga (Poughkeepsie Journal) ———– “Students see the possibilities”: A journalism professor writes about what keeps students joining J&MC programs (Miami Herald) ———– “College students learn records may be open, courtesy not a given”: A rundown of j-students’ experiences gathering [...]
Missourian to Continue In Print, Drop Two Editions
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Education, Student Newspaper, tagged College Journalism, College Media, Columbia Missourian, Future of Journalism, Journalism Education, Journalism Future, Student Journalism, Student Media, Student Newspaper, Student Press, University of Missouri, Vox on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Saturday and Monday editions of The Columbia Missourian are being dropped to help reduce the newspaper’s heavy operating budget deficit, but the newspaper will continue in print. (A brief write-up and related podcast can be found here.) ———— The start of an open letter to readers from the paper’s exec ed: ———— The Columbia [...]
Georgetown Journalism Students Sue FBI, CIA, DOD for Pearl Records
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Education, New Media, tagged College Journalism, College Media, Daniel Pearl, Georgetown University, Journalism, New Media, Pakistan, Pearl Project, Student Journalism, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A group of current and recent journalism students at Georgetown University are suing the FBI, CIA, and six other government agencies for records related to the 2002 kidnapping and death of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. According to The Washington Post, the students have been attempting to solve the Pakistan-set murder mystery for more [...]
Updated: Student Press May Face Prior Approval at NEIU
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged Chicago Reader, College Freedom, College Journalism, College Media, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, John K. Wilson, Northeastern Illinois University, Prior Approval, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper, Student Press Freedom on December 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
College Media Matters joins College Freedom, FIRE, and Chicago Reader in questioning and decrying the proposed free speech and free press restrictions currently under consideration at Northeastern Illinois University. The most disheartening part of the regulations for press lovers: a planned prior approval scheme encompassing all print newspapers and pamphlets appearing on campus. ———— As [...]
Name of New Student Newspaper: Student Newspaper :)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper on December 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The name and slant of a new student newspaper recently launched at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are conservative. Student Newspaper, according to its founders, is “the product of a core of five UNL students who have become increasingly frustrated by the lack of conservative voice on the UNL campus.” ———– ———– In an early December [...]
Collegiate Times Posts Documents Related to Campus Shooting
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Campus Shooting, College Journalism, College Media, Collegiate Times, Innovation in College Media, New Media, Pentagon Papers, Roanoke Times, Starr Report, Student Journalism, Student Media, Student Newspaper, Virginia Tech, Watergate on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a move reminiscent of professional newspapers’ handling of the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and The Starr Report, The Collegiate Times at Virginia Tech has posted online roughly 750 pages of what it is calling the “April 16 Documents” and what The Roanoke Times has labeled “shooting papers.” Read Bryan Murley’s related post, including his mention [...]
“Journalists Hope to Save Student Newspaper”
Posted in Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged ABC7 News, Chicago, Columbia College, New Expression, Student Journalism, Student Media, Student Newspaper, Youth Communication Chicago on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New Expression, a student publication in Chicago that exposed more than 4,000 teens to working journalism in its 32-year history, ended in October. The executive director of Youth Communication Chicago, the organization behind the pub: “It’s the economy, and the squeeze on nonprofits, and the crisis in the newspaper industry- it’s a perfect storm.” ———– [...]
Gonzaga Student Newspaper Rejects Pro-Life Advertisement
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper, tagged Abortion, College Journalism, College Media, College Newspaper, Gonzaga Bulletin, Gonzaga University, Human Life Alliance, Journalism Ethics, Pro-Life, Student Media, Student Newspaper, We Know Better Now on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Gonzaga Bulletin has stirred publicity and a bit of controversy for its recent rejection of a pro-life advertisement. The 12-page ad insert, titled “We Know Better Now,” “vigorously argues for the pro-life position. . . . arguing that it is now better known that abortion kills a human being, that it hurts women, and [...]
Washington Post Editor Starting in Fall at Arizona State
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Education, tagged Campus Journalism, College Journalism, Journalism Education on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Talk about intimidating office hours! The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University is adding another celebrity faculty member: Len Downie Jr., the famed, recently-retired top editor of The Washington Post who succeeded Ben Bradlee. —————- At Cronkite, Downie will be joining former CNN anchor Aaron Brown, former San Jose [...]
CoPress Founder is the Future of Journalism
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Education, New Media, tagged Blair Witch, College Journalism, College Media, Daniel Bachhuber, Future of Journalism, New Media, Obama, Publish2, Qik, Student Journalism on December 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Zapruder film. The Paris Hilton sex tape. The Charlie Bit Me YouTube phenomenon. In contemporary world history, a few video recordings have risen above the rest, etching a permanent place in the public consciousness. In my humble, college media-centric, only-slightly-sarcastic opinion, the Daniel Bachhuber Future of Journalism Livestream has now joined them. ————– ————– [...]
What Can Student Journalists Learn from Time’s Rise in Popularity?
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Magazine Journalism, New Media, tagged AdAge, College Journalism, College Media, Cosmo, Economist, Future of Journalism, Glamour Magazine, Magazine, Newsweek, People Magazine, Star Magazine, Student Journalism, Student Journalist, Student Magazine, Student Media, Time Magazine, U.S. News & World Report on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A recent survey on college students’ favorite brands revealed a surprising entry atop the magazine pile: Not People or Cosmo or Glamour or SI. Instead, Time, a purveyor of (mostly) serious news with only a dash of sports, fashion, and celebrity thrown in. —————- What can student journalists learn from their peers’ apparently unmatched love [...]
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